El See Dee, Lights, WWE RAW, Help... :)

well besides Xmas lights, the best i can tell you, isnt even lights.

id say use something like colored pipe cleaners. that, or colored slides. like confettie type material. shiney, and colored. so when you have it in place, shine it with a flashlight or something (which wouldnt be dumb cuz the arenas filled with spotlights,) the color of the slide will light up.

thats really all i can think of.

Just thinking about it:

Are there any lights that even have presets you can make?

So like, i could have one preset be red and orange and another be blue and another be green and yellow etc. so i could write them down and memorize them?

Go to radio shack. Get colored leds, circuit, battery. Google simple led circuit.

presto

I don't really know on those LED signs you can change the colour, text and crap so I would look into that if I were you.

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OK, I've looked a little here, looked a little there, here, there, here, there, looked a little everywhere.

And i've found out what i need to do.

I need to learn how to make a dot-matrix display.

Doing such a thing will leave me with a board (however big i want it) that i can fill with LED lights and programme to display what i want. So i can make it switch from one colour to another, provided i get my hands on the right LED's that i will need (colour-switching ones, obviously).


However, in every attempt to find out how to make a dot-matrix display, there doesn't seem to be an online guide that tells you in straightforward plain english.

I have found some nice light boards on eBay, but they come from a chinese seller and the description is very bland, and it doesn't tell me how i would power the lights.

So i need to go figure out how to make a dot-matrix display. This will be a big board of lights that will sit behind the titantron, and will be white (generating a curtain kind of effect. That is: the curtain that is behind the RAW titantron, so you can't see backstage). However, because this will be a miniature arena, the lights will (hopefully) be strong enough, that when they switch to red, they will cast a red cover on the arena (for Kane's intro, RAW opening, etc.) or green, blue etc. etc.


So.. anyone here know anything about dot-matrix displays?

I contacted a YouTube member who had a video of one he made, but i didn't hear back


I read a few guides, etc. on t'internet but they weren't of much use, as they used very technical terms for everything. which threw me off a little and confused me, and i can't seem to find a very basic one, for someone who knows very little about electronics, and wants to build a one-off project

The Whole F'n sXe Show: I searched "dot-matrix" on that site, and it only listed one item. A Casio calculator


If i can get a board big enough, I will be able to put a huge dot-matrix behind the raw titantron. This would (hopefully be strong enough to) cast a light on the miniature arena. Meaning that when i switch from triple H to Kane's intro, the lights will go from green to red, and cast a kinda green or red blanket over the arena (making everything red or green etc.)


I don't know how to make a dot-matrix display though. thats the problem i'm facing.

I want it to be able to do this kinda thing:




id also like to know how to do this, for pyro effects, etc.




I'd be needing something like this, but on a bigger scale:



(I wish all these youtube links were eBay links. Would make it a lot easier)

but i wana try making one myself. that way i can position the LED's at the bottom of the board to fit for the RAW stage, and have the other ones (above the stage) all over the place, to look good